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• Pagan police gain new employment rights

  Police bosses have formally recognised pagans as a minority group and given the bobbies who practice witchcraft the same rights as other minority groups. Coppers in the new Pagan Police Association will have guaranteed holiday on the faith's festival days around summer solstice and Halloween. PC Andy Pardy, who set up the association, told Police... Posted Jul 17 2009, 03:41 PM by Guru Filed under: police, holiday, religion, pagan

• Personnel Today stays on tour

  Personnel Today has certainly being going global recently. Japan, France, Reading... these are just a few of the exotic locations that disciples have taken their favourite HR publication - and been snapped in the process. Here's a pic of Personnel Today's deputy editor Mike Berry visiting a dinosaur park near Montpellier on his hols. Now, no... Posted Jul 15 2009, 09:56 AM by Guru Filed under: HR, Personnel Today, human resources, holiday, dinosaurs

• What's the best out of office message?

  We are approaching the school holidays and the time of year when most parents use the bulk of their annual leave. Phone calls go answered, emails go unread and post remains unopened. It's the time of year when UK Plc effectively shutdowns for six weeks. There is nothing more infuriating when you send or forward an email to a colleague or key contact... Posted Jul 14 2009, 02:28 PM by Guru Filed under: absence, workers, holiday, summer holidays, out of office

• Family hols more stressful than work

  Despite Guru's post yesterday about Christmas being almost upon us, thoughts this time of year inevitably turn to time off and the summer holidays. A couple of weeks off, away from the daily grind of work, the stresses of the office, the emotional turmoil of making half the workforce redundant. Some 'me' time to really kick back and relax... Posted May 12 2009, 10:11 AM by Guru Filed under: stress, work, children, leisure, office, holiday, family

• Teachers need lesson in humility - and reality

  Good to see the nation's teachers showing a healthy dose of realism again. Guru has often thought that teachers don't live in the real world, and the latest news seems to confirm that theory. Not content with having a third of the year off, the part-timers have now demanded a 10% pay rise. Members of the National Union of Teachers have backed... Posted Apr 16 2009, 08:57 AM by Guru Filed under: teachers, strikes, holiday, pay

• Waitress gets the sack - and a dose of fleas

  News reaches Guru of a particularly unpleasant tribunal case that he guarantees you will be unable to read about without scratching. The BBC reports waitress Maria Moon won an unfair dismissal claim after being sacked for complaining she had been bitten by fleas. Moon was living in a chalet at Hafan y Môr holiday centre in north-west Wales. She told... Posted Feb 11 2009, 08:10 AM by Guru Filed under: health & safety, holiday, tribunal, health and safety, sacking, fleas, unfair dismissal, wales, chalet

• Island paradise celebrates tribunal triumph

  News reaches Guru of huge legal developments on the picturesque holiday destination of the Seychelles. Situated in the western Indian Ocean, where the last big news was independence from Britain in 1976 (Guru still mourns that day), the islands make the Caribbean look like a capitalist empire. But now the Seychelles government (which is not just one... Posted Oct 03 2008, 05:06 PM by Guru Filed under: global, holiday, tribunal, employment, seychelles, employment law